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Indian record holder MR BV. Narayan (C) shakes hands with people after arriving on his modified motorcycle in Amritsar. Narayan, who has already completed a world tour on a bicycle in 18 months traveling 89600 kilometers across 59 countries, now has plans to travel around the world in his specially modified motorcycle. - AFP
Chinese climbers celebrate with the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torches as they reach the summit of Mount Everest on Wednesday exactly three months ahead of the Beijing Games. - AFP•SC reinstates Venugopal
•Cyclone aid
•Briefs
•But Mr Bush, Indians consume only 3% of world oil
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Rescue workers haul the body of a crash victim up the side of a ravine after a bus plunged into a river in the Kishtwar district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, some 240km northeast of Jammu on Thursday. At least 40 people are feared dead in the accident. - SNS•Glasgow doc under police surveillance
•Quota helps women in panchayati raj institutions: Study
•Sariska readies for the return of tigers
•Dreaded dacoit surrenders
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Thousands of Chinese gather to welcome the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay to Shenzhen in south China`s Guangdong province. - AFP•Suu Kyi living in darkness
•China ‘serious’ about Tibet dialogue
•BRIEFS
•London meet to restore judges
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•Interest rates will remain stable: Kamath
•Jute mills seek funds for modernisation
•ITC figures in UN body
•Samtel, Thales  pact to set up JV
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Juan Carlos Ferrero (left) consoles Rafael Nadal at the end of the match in Rome on Wednesday. - AFP•MCC handles cricket’s new age aberration
•‘Special one’ snubbed by Barcelona
•Knowing the Arsenal way
•Spain up against player rebellion
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Raj Bhavan in an island of darkness when the city dazzles with lights on Thursday in Kolkata. - PRABIR BHATTACHARAYA•Cong heavyweights attack CPM record in Nadia
•Indo-French naval exercise
•briefs
•Nandigram: SP-rank cop posted
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